FAITH IN ONESELF OR FAITH IN GOD? ... 1
The present is held hostage to the past. Traditions grind us down with age-old superstitions running deep into the psyche which will neither let rationality prevail nor clarity of spiritual conception cleanse us of all duality which has clouded our unitary vision. Authority, scriptural injunction and misapprehension of the message of messiahs and divine incarnations have so debilitated the human will that man has veritably been reduced to a slave of the so-called higher will with neither the capacity for self-determination nor the power to overthrow this horrendous hypnosis that he is a helpless creature at the mercy of a capricious God.
The major world religions of Abrahamic origin believe in a creator God with His supreme will determining the course of the cosmos and of terrestrial life, and adherents are expected to ever pay obeisance to Him despite the fact that He, out of His infinite wisdom, chooses to be cruel, capricious and conniving with the evil elements of the day whose toxic influence has corroded civilisation beyond recognition and continues to hold it in its noxious grip till date.
The Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism) and its 'rebel child', Buddhism, are by contrast far more benign religions with a basis deep in profound philosophy which resonates to modern science. But even in the day-to-day version of these religions, authority plays an enormous role to undermine the individual will greatly and reduce the stature of the ordinary man much to his detriment in terms of the possibility of spiritual evolution. Where religion is supposed to emancipate the shackled human person, it forges further chains to bind him and this runs contrary to the essential purpose of the Vedic dharma which in trumpet voice declares the ever-existent freedom of the human soul.
Written by Sugata Bose
The present is held hostage to the past. Traditions grind us down with age-old superstitions running deep into the psyche which will neither let rationality prevail nor clarity of spiritual conception cleanse us of all duality which has clouded our unitary vision. Authority, scriptural injunction and misapprehension of the message of messiahs and divine incarnations have so debilitated the human will that man has veritably been reduced to a slave of the so-called higher will with neither the capacity for self-determination nor the power to overthrow this horrendous hypnosis that he is a helpless creature at the mercy of a capricious God.
The major world religions of Abrahamic origin believe in a creator God with His supreme will determining the course of the cosmos and of terrestrial life, and adherents are expected to ever pay obeisance to Him despite the fact that He, out of His infinite wisdom, chooses to be cruel, capricious and conniving with the evil elements of the day whose toxic influence has corroded civilisation beyond recognition and continues to hold it in its noxious grip till date.
The Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism) and its 'rebel child', Buddhism, are by contrast far more benign religions with a basis deep in profound philosophy which resonates to modern science. But even in the day-to-day version of these religions, authority plays an enormous role to undermine the individual will greatly and reduce the stature of the ordinary man much to his detriment in terms of the possibility of spiritual evolution. Where religion is supposed to emancipate the shackled human person, it forges further chains to bind him and this runs contrary to the essential purpose of the Vedic dharma which in trumpet voice declares the ever-existent freedom of the human soul.
Written by Sugata Bose
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